Steele on Electoral Reform – Part 6: Cabinet

Presidential candidates must name prospective individuals to all Cabinet positions at least 90 days prior to Election Day, and those individuals must participate in such debates as the states might organize, and at least one national debate for each of the positions.

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America is too complicated, and single individuals too limited, to tolerate as we now do the election of a single individual and their Vice President – an individual that then pays off all their campaign debts with Cabinet appointments, issuing virtual letters of marque for looting the public treasury. Goldman Sachs has “owned” the U.S. Treasury (and the Federal Reserve) for the past several Administrations, and nothing they do is good for the public.

President’s must IDENTIFY their planned Cabinet picks, and ideally those Cabinet officials should participate in Cabinet-level debates, for example, the nominees for Attorney General, Director of Intelligence, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of Commerce.

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As I myself have found, running for President and having already announced a tentative Cabinet, those named are very reluctant to accept or be associated with a particular campaign, either from a reluctance to engage, or a desire to keep options open. With time, this one aspect of electoral reform will do a great deal to elevate the intelligence and integrity of our entire electoral process.

Here are the links to the basics that no presidential candidate today has a grip on — they are all puffery, some lies, and zero substance. In my view, it should not be possible to run for president in the USA without doing the things I have done at BigBatUSA.

About the Author

Robert Steele

Robert Steele is an activist focused on electoral reform as the "one thing" we can all agree on. He is a former spy profiled by Alvin Toffler for his rejection of spying and proponency of open source everything. He is also an honorary hacker, #1 Amazon reviewer for non-fiction, and briefly a candidate for the 2012 presidential nomination of the Reform Party. His latest book, Open Power, hit #1 in Civics at Kindle, and is available free as an ePub to any IVN reader who prefers not to use Kindle.